Regular expressions: finding one occurence

[Peter Thornqvist]

How would I design a regular expression to find the first occurence of a
specific pattern and not look for more matches?

 

[Peter Thornqvist]

Just to clarify, I can't use the {n} quantifier since this doesn't prevent
Regex from parsing the entire string even if a match has been found. Is
there any other way to accomplish what I want, i.e just find the first
occurence and then stop?

 

[Martin Honnen]

How would I design a regular expression to find the first occurence of a
specific pattern and not look for more matches?

If you use the Match method
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...xtRegularExpressionsRegexClassMatchTopic1.asp>
then it returns only the first match and you can check the Success
property of that match. You would need to explictly call the NextMatch
method to look for more matches.

 

[Peter Thornqvist]

If you use the Match method

<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...xtRegularExpressionsRegexClassMatchTopic1.asp>
then it returns only the first match and you can check the Success
property of that match. You would need to explictly call the NextMatch
method to look for more matches.

Thank you! That was exactly what I was looking for.